Day: December 3, 2017

Deleting files on your Linux machine that have strange names. And how to use wildcards on the shell.

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I ran a Perl script on my system that created a bunch of files on my computer named as shown below. I could have typed rm -f A* but that could have deleted other files that have a capital “A” as the first letter of the filename. That is where wildcards come into play. I … Read more

How to create a temporary ram drive on a Linux box. This is very useful.

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Creating a ram drive on a Linux box is very useful for storing files in a temporary fashion, and having some very fast scratch space for an application. The ramfs filesystem type may be used, but it will continue to grow until your RAM is used up. The tmpfs filesystem type, does not have this … Read more